Epanapauomai means “settle on” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H1879 — dashen (“fat”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G1879 ἐπαναπαύομαι (epanapauomai) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. epanapauomai (ep-an-ah-pau'-om-ai) v. 1. to settle on 2. (literally) remain It has 11 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include rest and restest. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
epanapauomai (ep-an-ah-pau'-om-ai) v. 1. to settle on 2. (literally) remain 3. (figuratively) rely [middle voice from G1909 and G373] KJV: rest in (upon) Root(s): G1909, G373
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to rest/rely on
Usage: ἐπ-ανα-παύω [in LXX, mid., for נוּחַ, שָׁעַן ni ;] to refresh, cause to rest (upon); mid., to rest upon: metaphorically, with dative, Rom.2:17; before ἐπί, with accusative, Luk.10:6 (Cremer, 827).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render epanapauomai, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G1879 (ἐπαναπαύομαι) appears 9 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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2 indexed usages in New Testament.
And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.
Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
8 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy men that were elders; and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied and ceased.
And there were two men left in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad; and the spirit rested upon them, and these were of the number of them that were enrolled, but they did not come to the tabernacle; and they prophesied in the camp.
And the sons of the prophets who were in Jericho on the opposite side saw him, and said, The spirit of Elijah has rested upon Elisha. And they came to meet him, and did obeisance to him to the ground.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
It was told him besides, how they destroyed and brought under their dominion all other kingdoms and isles that at any time resisted them;
First 11 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1879.
And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy men that were elders; and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied and ceased.
And there were two men left in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad; and the spirit rested upon them, and these were of the number of them that were enrolled, but they did not come to the tabernacle; and they prophesied in the camp.
And the sons of the prophets who were in Jericho on the opposite side saw him, and said, The spirit of Elijah has rested upon Elisha. And they came to meet him, and did obeisance to him to the ground.
And let the Lord be propitious to thy servant when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he shall lean on my hand, and I shall bow down in the house of Rimmon when he bows down in the house of Rimmon; even let the Lord, I pray, be merciful to thy servant in this matter.
And the officer on whose hand the king rested, answered Elisha, and said, Behold, if the Lord shall make floodgates in heaven, might this thing be? and Elisha said, Behold, thou shalt see with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
And the king appointed the officer on whose hand the king leaned to have charge over the gate: and the people trampled on him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spoke when the messenger came down to him.
When they took hold of thee with their hand, thou didst break: and when every hand was clapped against them, and when they leaned on thee, thou wast utterly broken, and didst crush the loins of them all.
The heads thereof have judged for gifts, and the priests thereof have answered for hire, and her prophets have divined for silver: and yet they have rested on the Lord, saying, Is not the Lord among us? no evil shall come upon us.
And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.
Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
It was told him besides, how they destroyed and brought under their dominion all other kingdoms and isles that at any time resisted them;
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1879, grouped by book.
Epanapauomai (Strong's G1879) is a Greek word most simply glossed "settle on". epanapauomai (ep-an-ah-pau'-om-ai) v. 1. to settle on 2. (literally) remain
This page currently indexes 11 linked usages for Strong's G1879 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1879 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as rest and restest. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 8 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G1879, with linked reader references where each row is available.